Badminton is gaining its popularity day by day due to participation of different country’s player but there are some badminton facts that you probably are not aware of , so read this article weather you are a badminton player or sports lover you will not regret this.

As i promised you i will be going to tell you badminton facts from which 5 are the interesting one’s and other are the funny one’s.

• The fastest racquet sport in the world is badminton, Mads kolding smashed the shuttle at speed of 426 km/h in pbl(premier badminton league in India).

Interesting badminton facts that will blow your mind

1). liem swie king( highest jump smash)

Have you heard this name before if no than he was an badminton player from Indonesia the special thing about him is his jump smash ,

He is one of the First person who started doing jump smashes in International circuit.

The height from the ground he achieved while making the jump smash was almost 1 meters(One of the highest jumps in Badminton).

Most of the time liem swie has to change his racket after king smash due to broken string and also the shuttle.

Watch This video to see a demo.

2). Feathers of shuttle

Feathers from the left wing of the goose make the best shuttlecocks.

16 feathers are used to make the shuttlecock and it weighs between 4.74 and 5.5 grams.

The cork is covered with thin leather.To ensure satisfactory flight properties,it is considered preferable to use feathers from right or left wings only in each shuttlecock,and not mix feathers from different wings, as the feathers from different wings are shaped differently.

Goose

Do you know that you can change the speed of weather shuttlecock by few tweaks, speed of shutter is not always same especially when you are using entry level shuttlecocks sometime it is fast sometimes it is slow.

So to change speed of shuttle bend the tip of every fourth feathers with your index finger and thumb outside if you want to make it slow and when did it to inside to make shuttle flight faster.

It is important to note that in International Circuit it is not allowed and coming to domestic tournaments always concerned with chair umpire before changing shuttle without telling your opponent you cannot take any action regarding speed of shuttle.
I have also a article on this topic which you can read

3). Length of the Matches and rallies in badminton

Longest match (Guinness world record) :- The longest marathon playing badminton, singles is 25 hr 25 min and 44 sec and was achieved by Mario Langmann and Thomas Paulweber (both Austria) in Reutte, Austria,on 26-27 November 2016.

Longest match (International circuit):- During the women’s doubles semi-final at the Badminton Asia Championships on Saturday where the match lasted a staggering 2 hours and 41 minutes.

The Japanese pair of Naoko Fukuman and Kurumi Yonao played out of their skins to shock third seeds Nitya Krishinda Maheswari and Greysia Polii 13-21, 21-19, 24-22 in 161 minutes to create a new world record.

Longest rally in badminton :- the match Naoko Fukuman/Kurumi Yonao vs Poon Lok Yan/Tse Ying Suet ended after 256 shots (4.5 minutes long)

4). Calories burned in badminton

Your weight is a major factor in determining how many calories you will burn while playing badminton.

For example, while playing badminton at a moderate intensity for one hour, a 200-pound person will burn approximately 544 calories.

A 120-pound person playing at the same duration and intensity will burn approximately 327 calories which is more than tennis.

You can also calculate how much calorie burn during play, a with there are various factor which affect this figure like

Gender

It is a known fact that men burn more calories than women as a man have generally more muscle mass then women due to this reason they burn 5% to 10% more calories than women of same weight.

Intensity of play

How much work you are putting in while doing the exercise is also a determining factor, for example if you are playing a casual match and not much movement is done then calorie burnt will be low where as in a competitive match and long rallies are been played then the number will be higher so if you want to burn more calories in badminton try to at least break a sweat

Height of player

Short players have fast metabolism activity as compared to tall player which causes more calorie burn.

Weight

The more you weigh the more calories will burn when exercising because your body has to use more energy and work harder to move itself.

Age

Younger people burn more calories and as you grow older the harder it will become for you to play badminton to burn the equivalent number of release as you start to lose muscle tissue and organ activity also decreases.

This calorie calculator will help you

5). Popularity of badminton sport in world

It may come as a surprise to some people that badminton is among the world’s most popular sports. However, it is extremely popular and played regularly by an estimated 220 million people around the world. It is particularly popular in Asia, with many of the best players ever to grace the game hailing from the continent.

Some Fun Facts about the badminton that will tickle your bone

1). Shortest badminton match

The shortest badminton match ever recorded was at the 1996 Uber Cup in HongKong, which lasted 6 minutes! Ra Kyung-min (South Korea) crushed Julia Mann (England) 11-2, 11-1 in that match.

2). Largest Shuttlecock in the world

shuttlecock

18-foot-tall badminton shuttlecocks weighs 2,500kg, lie scattered about the lawn of a Kansas City museum,48 times larger than a real shuttlecock.

Created by the husband-and-wife team of Claes Oldenburg and Coosje Van Bruggen, the aluminum and fiberglass pieces were installed over a five-day period in July 1994.

3).  Badminton played with feet

A game called Ti Zian Ji was played by the Chinese originally, which is the forerunner of badminton.

In this sport, the players used their feet instead of racquets to hit the shuttlecock! The game is still played in China!

4). Only 5 countries has won Thomas cup (updated 2018)

I don’t know either it is funny or little bit concern to make Badminton globle sport but only five countries have ever won the Thomas Cup since its Inception in 1948.

• Malaysia:- 5 time
• Indonesia:- 13 times
• China:- 10 times
• Japan:- 1 time
• Denmark:- 1 time

5). Most of BWF events winner are from Asia

About 70% of the competitive wins BWF event who are from Asia and I think this is the reason why badminton is struggling to go mainstream like football, cricket and I believe if we want to to make badminton more globalized than efforts should be made to increase winners from different country.

One bonus fact which i bet no one has mentioned before

Legs of badminton player have more muscles as compared to there body expecially those who plays singles category

I personally have more muscles on my legs as compared to my upper body and the reason for it is pretty simple, badminton demands more leg strength

So if you are a badminton player who do not want to make career in it make sure you are also doing weight training for upper body

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